I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head!

You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.